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Old 05-30-2012, 04:19 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by Mike L View Post
No. Nothing to do with Anglo Saxons or Celtic fringes. I'm talking about wars between different factions within the same country, struggling for control of the country. I think that's more-or-less what "civil war" means, although I agree it can be interpreted in different ways.

Mike

If you look at the Wars of the Roses, that really is a classic civil war between factions . If you look at Edward I's conquest of Wales or his invasion of Scotland (Braveheart, Bannockburn, and all that),then it fits more the Anglo-Saxon/Celtic thing.
I think that we can both agree that even if we think of the UK as now a united, peaceful "kingdom by the sea." it was not always thus. That unity and peace was hard won.

Those who have good recommends on the Wars of the Roses or other English civil wars, please chime in.
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